NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Joanne says there are no political conditions to sit down at the negotiating table in the war in Ukraine, and that we must be prepared for a war that will continue and intensify in the coming months. He noted that these few months can give a certain direction for the future of this conflict provoked by Russia.

He stated this on Saturday on Prima TV, answering a question about how he sees the continuation of the war in Ukraine and whether it could become bloodier than before.

“Intensity is possible with the arrival of spring”

• “It will be a war that will continue, probably with increased intensity, with the arrival of spring.
• War is affected by the cyclical nature of the seasons, and this is not the first time that winter has created conditions for a slightly slower side, although Russia tried to launch an offensive, rather trying to test vulnerable points in the chain of Ukrainian defenses. , this is the front on the eastern flank and on the southern flank of the Ukrainian front of a thousand and one kilometers.
• It’s long, but it seems that these attempts by Russia to launch a winter-spring offensive, if you will, did not go very, very well, just as the whole war did not go well at all for the Russian Federation,” said the Deputy Secretary General of NATO, quoted by News.ro.

“We must be prepared for a war that will continue”

When asked whether we should expect a long war, Mircea Joane answered that today there are no political conditions for both sides to sit down at the negotiating table:

• “Wars usually end at the negotiating table.
• We also have to say something else – if the wars that we remember in the archives or our grandfathers and great-grandfathers actually lived through them, poor people, thank God that we are in NATO, because this is no longer happening on the territory of Romania, because it is a beauty stay in NATO.
• It is quite clear that neither side will end the war by occupying the other’s capital. Neither Ukrainians to Moscow, as Putin tries to say, nor Russians to Kyiv.”

When asked if he was sure that the Russians had no way to reach Kyiv, Joana answered:

• “You never know anything for sure, but it is clear that Ukraine is a country that is fighting big and small for its own survival, for its existence, for its freedom.
• They are doing it very, very well, with our help, it must be said that we helped them too. And we not only help them with military equipment, we helped them with military doctrine, with the transformation of the Soviet-type army culture into a NATO one, and that is why they are very effective, alone, because they fight with others. heroism, when you defend your country, you fight like this, when you go on a senseless aggression, Russians have a much lower morale.”

He insisted that there are no political conditions for a quick end to this war, but we are seeing the old Russian and Soviet tactics of using numbers and trying to recruit new soldiers.

• “So we must be prepared for a war that will continue, the intensity of which will increase in the coming months.
• In our opinion, these few months can provide some direction for the future of this conflict.
• We hope and help the Ukrainians so that they have the ability to resist and, why not, to conduct a successful counteroffensive that will allow them to free as much as possible of the territory illegally occupied by the Russian Federation,” added the deputy secretary. NATO general.